SAIC Alum Dan O’Brien’s Churches of Chicago

SAIC Alum Dan O’Brien’s Churches of Chicago

April 12, 2017

Dan O’Brien (MS 2012) is no stranger to the city. As an architect and preservationist, Dan has a keen interest in Chicago’s neighborhoods. As a student at SAIC, Dan and classmate Christen Sundquist Martin (MS 2012) were selected as research assistants for Geoffrey Baer at WTTW. But even before that, Dan’s love of Chicago history and its neighborhoods was evident to his classmates and teachers, as he was affectionately dubbed “Mr. Chicago”.

For more than 150 years, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has been a leader in educating the world’s most influential artists, designers​, and scholars. Located in downtown Chicago with a fine arts graduate program consistently ranking among the top programs in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, SAIC provides an interdisciplinary approach to art and design as well as world-class resources, including the Art Institute of Chicago museum, on-campus galleries​, and state-of-the-art facilities. SAIC’s undergraduate, graduate​, and post-baccalaureate students have the freedom to take risks and create the bold ideas that transform Chicago and the world—as seen through notable alumni and faculty such as Michelle Grabner, David Sedaris, Elizabeth Murray, Richard Hunt, Georgia O’Keeffe, Cynthia Rowley, Nick Cave, Jeff Koons, and LeRoy Neiman.